List $17.98

Written by Sophocles - Translated by Duncan Steen - Directed by Nicolas Soames - Audio book performed by Michael Sheen, John Moffatt, Heathcote Williams, Adam Kotz and a full cast - Dramatized Fiction - 2 COMPACT DISCS with music by Siegel and Buck - 1 hour, 42 minutes

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (August 1999)

This new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece starts a cycle of drama. recordings by Naxos AudioBooks. The anguished tale of Oedipus, who having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and become King of Thebes, gradually realizes the crimes he has, unwittingly, committed, remains a drama of unremitting power 2,500 years after it was written. With full drama values, Naxos AudioBooks the atmosphere of the Greek amphitheatre to the sound world of CD and tape, with the outstanding young actor Michael Sheen - recently seen as Hennj V (RSC) and Amadeus (West End) and on film and TV.